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Institute Director
Areas of expertise: Education policy; large scale assessments (LSAs); teachers' and school leaders' work, education theory,
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Available
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0484-8175
Email: greg.thompson@acu.edu.au
Location: Banyo Campus
Greg Thompson is Professor of Education Research at Australian Catholic University and Director of the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked as a high school teacher in Western Australia for 13 years. He graduated with a PhD from Murdoch University in 2009. From 2010-2015 he worked in the School of Education at Murdoch, and the School of Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) from 2015-2025. before taking up his position at ACU in 2025. Thompson's research focuses on educational theory, education policy, and the philosophy/sociology of education assessment and measurement with a particular emphasis on large-scale testing. Recent research projects include understanding teachers' time poverty and links to attrition/burnout, understanding the effects of school autonomy on teacher's and school leader's work, reconceptualising test validity, and the impact of learning analytics/Big Data/GenAI on schools. He was Australasian Editor of The Journal of Education Policy (2016-2023) and Associate Editor of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (2014-2017). He edited Local/Global Issues in Education (Routledge) from 2015-2024 and currently edits Deleuze and Education Research (Edinburgh University Press).
His work has attracted funding from the Australian Research Council (Fellowships, Discovery and Linkage Schemes), and professional associations at national and state levels, as well as international educational agencies. This has supported publications in leading international journals and publishing houses including Routledge, Sage and Springer. He is the Foundation Editor of 2 book series with Routledge and Edinburgh University Press.